How to pronounce “spill”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
• (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
• (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
• (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
• To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
• (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
• (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
• To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
• (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
• (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
• (ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
• (of a knot) To come undone.
• (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
• [Noun]
• (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
• A fall or stumble.
• A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
• A slender piece of anything.
• (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
• (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
• (obsolete) A small sum of money.
• (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

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